Logic Puzzles

Logic Puzzle 1 “Hi ho, hi ho, its off to work I go”

A plumber, a carpenter, and an electrician applied for jobs with a famous construction firm. From the information given below can you identify each worker's full name, job, and age?
1. Names: Federer, Nadal, Agassi. Surnames: Tim, John, Bjorn. Ages: 25, 30, 35 (but not respectively).
2. Tim, the electrician, is older than Federer.
3. Nadal is the carpenter.
4. The plumber is 30 years old.
5. The youngest worker of the three is not called Bjorn.

Use the table below to work out who is who and how old is he, and what job does he have?

Name	Surname	Age	Job

Logic Puzzle 2 - "Most Likely to ..."

In the 2006 New Jersey High School yearbook, five seniors are honored by their classmates by being named the graduates "Most Likely to ..." Each of the five, three girls: Elle, Justine, and Martina, and two boys: Pete and Andy, is comically caricatured in the yearbook in the role he or she is "Most Likely to" achieve. From the following information about the five honorees, can you find each grad's full name and what he or she is "Most Likely to ..."?
• At the Senior Prom in May, "Most Likely to ..." honorees Andy and the Roddick girl were crowned prom king and queen.
• Neither the Appelman boy nor the Capriati boy is the graduate "Most Likely to Appear on the Cover of Sports Illustrated."
• Pete is this year's graduate "Most Likely to End Up Wearing a Number," which despite its seemingly bad connotation is actually the honor for most popular classmate.
• The Roddick girl isn't the one chosen "Most Likely to Win an Oscar."
• Neither Martina nor the Capriati boy won the "Most Likely to Walk on Mars" accolade.
• The senior named "Most Likely to Become President," who isn't Elle, missed the Senior Prom to attend the National Youth Mock Congress in Washington.
• Martina, who isn't the winner whose last name is Courier, isn't in the yearbook as the grad "Most Likely to Appear on the Cover of Sports Illustrated."
• At the prom, the Edberg girl and her date were named best dancers.

First name	Surname	Most likely to…

Logic Puzzle 3 - "I love Chicken ..."

Every Friday, Dr. Ashe and the rest of the staff at Devon Radiology go out to lunch. Last week, the five: two men (John and Arthur) and three women (Dianne, Rosie, and Jennifer) enjoyed the luncheon buffet at Chicken Little, a restaurant specializing (obviously) in chicken dishes and offering five different entrees on the buffet: roast chicken breast, Buffalo wings, Cajun strips, chicken pot pie, and chicken barbeque. Given the clues below, can you find the full name of each diner, his or her job at the office, and which of the five entrées he or she sampled at Chicken Little last Friday?
1. Each of the five had a different number 1-5 of the buffet entrees, with each entree being tried by exactly three of the diners.
2. Jennifer and the office manager tried none of the same entrees.
3. The records clerk sampled one more entree than Cawley; the only dish the two both tried was roast chicken breast.
4. John and Connors had second helpings of the same entree.
5. The laboratory technician didn't try the Buffalo wings because they might be too hot.
6. Cash sampled four of the five Chicken Little entrees.
7. Rosie had one more entree than Mr. Chang; the two had no entree choices in common.
8. John and the office nurse had iced tea with their meals.
9. The records clerk also didn't try the Buffalo wings.
10. Rosie had a helping of chicken barbeque, but Jennifer didn't.
11. Chang didn't sample the Chicken Little roast chicken breast.

First name	Surname	Job	Dishes tried (1)	2	3	4	5

Logic Puzzle 4 - "At the zoo ..."

One day early this month, five fathers each brought their only child for a day at the zoo. The children had a glorious time together watching the different animals, and some were even brave enough to try petting and feeding the animals in the petting zoo area. Each child discovered however, that there was one animal that they particularly liked and one that each really didn’t like. The peculiar part is that these likes and dislikes of the children could be summed up in five different animals – and each child had different likes and dislikes. As a special treat, each father allowed their child to choose anything they wanted for their afternoon snack. All were sorry when the day was over and it was time to leave. Determine the full name of each child, each child’s favorite and least favorite animals, and the snack each child chose.
1. Kim got cotton candy. Amanda didn’t get a caramel apple. Ms. Dalton didn’t like the monkeys.
2. Jimmy Davenport’s favorite animal wasn’t the seals. Steffi didn’t get fried dough.
3. Neither of the boys got fried dough, but one got nachos and the other one liked the monkeys best. The child who didn’t like the giraffes got a box of popcorn.
4. The Evert child really liked the lions. Steffi really liked the seals. Amanda’s last name wasn’t Graf.
5. Kevin, whose last name wasn’t Evert, didn’t get a caramel apple. The Ferrero child had fried dough.
6. The girl who liked the elephants didn’t like the seals. The child whose last name is Graf really liked the monkeys. Jimmy’s least favorite animal wasn’t the giraffes.

First name	Surname	Likes…	Doesn’t like…	Eats…

Logic Puzzle 5 - "Summer jobs ..."

This summer, five friends each found a different job to earn money. As it happened, they all started their new jobs in the same week; each on a different day and each earning a different amount. Determine the type of job each got, the day of the week each started working, each friend’s mode of transportation to their new job, and how much per hour each friend was earning.
1. Tommy didn’t have a newspaper route but he did use the bus. The boy who mowed lawns took the train to work.
2. The boy who used a bicycle started working on Friday. Nicholas didn’t get a job as a painter.
3. The five friends are represented, in no particular order, by the following: the boy who made $7.00 per hour, the boy who started work on Thursday, the boy who used a car to get to work, Tommy, and the boy who mowed lawns.
4. Richard started work the day before the boy who worked as a cashier but two days after the boy who made $8.00 per hour. The boy who worked as a cashier made $0.50 per hour more than Greg made.
5. The boy who started work on Tuesday made $7.25 per hour. Rod didn’t start work on Monday. Richard made more per hour than the painter but less than the boy who used a car.
6. Rod walked to work. The person who started on Wednesday didn’t make $7.50 per hour. The golf caddy used a car to get to work.

Name	Type of job…	Day started work…	Hourly rate…	Mode of transport…

Logic Puzzle 6 - " Christmas Returns..."..."

Last Saturday morning, Mrs. Mistletoe returned the Christmas gifts for her children that hadn't worked out to the mall stores where she bought them. As it turned out, there was one return for each of the five children, including Ivan, with each being returned for a different reason to a different mall retailer, one to DKNY.
Given the details of her trip below, can you determine the order 1st-5th in which Mrs. Mistletoe made the returns: the store visited, the child whose gift was returned, the item returned, and the reason for the return?
1. Mrs. Mistletoe made these five returns (not necessarily in order): David's gift, the jeans, the article bought at Rip Curl, the item of apparel that the recipient didn't like, and the one to the 5th store in the order.
2. Amelie's gift, which wasn't the one returned because it was too small, wasn't the one purchased at Nike.
3. Immediately after returning the hat to one mall store, Mrs. Mistletoe returned Mindy's gift to another retailer.
4. The item returned to Dolce & Gabbana wasn't the one that was too large.
5. The article Mrs. Mistletoe took back to Rip Curl, which wasn't Amelie's, wasn't the one that was the wrong color.
6. Immediately after returning Anastasia's gift, Mrs. Mistletoe returned the item that was too small; immediately after returning the too small article, Mrs. Mistletoe returned the sweatshirt.
7. The shorts weren't the too large item.
8. Conchita's gift wasn't the one returned because it was the wrong style.
9. The item of apparel returned to Calvin Klein, which wasn't Conchita's, wasn't the sweatshirt.
10. Mrs. Mistletoe didn't return the jacket to Nike.
11. The jeans weren't Anastasia's.
12. In consecutive order first-to-last, Mrs. Mistletoe made these three returns: the one to Calvin Klein, Amelie's gift, and the article that was the wrong color.

Return number	Child name	Brand returned	Type of clothing	Reason for return

Logic Puzzle 7 - " If It's Friday It Must Be Pizza "

Last Friday, the four families who live on the north side of AnchoveyAve.--at 301, 303, 305, and 307 going west-to-east--ordered pizza for dinner from Domino’s Pizza. The orders were close in time, so deliveryman Tom Atabella delivered one of the four pizzas, including the pepperoni, to eachhouse in a single trip to the street. Given the clues below, you should be able to decide which family lives at each Mozarella Way address and the kind of pizza they ordered for Friday pizza night.

After delivering a pizza to the Caper family, Tom Atabella immediately delivered a jalepeno pizza next door to the Capers' house.
After delivering a pizza to the Dolmios, Tom immediately took a anchovy pizza to a house two doors away from the Dolmios'.
The family at 303 Mozarella Way had a mushroom pizza.
The Olives, who didn't order an anchovy pizza, don't live at 307.
The Supremes' address isn't 301 Mozarella Way
Neither the Dolmios nor the Capers ordered the mushroom pizza.

Number of house	Pizza	Family

Logic Puzzle 8 - " Who are the people in your neighbourhood "

Facts:

There are five houses in five different colours.
In each house lives a person of a different nationality.
These five owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigarette and keep a certain pet.
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of smoke or drink
the same drink.

Hints:

The Swiss lives in the red house.
The Finn keeps dogs as pets.
The Scot drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
The Greek lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Rothmans lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Drum drinks beer.
The Russian smokes Three Castles.
The Greek lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Rothmans has a neighbour who drinks water.

The question is: WHO OWNS FISH?

House number	Nationality	Colour	Animal	Drink	Tobacco

Logic Puzzle 10 - " Valentines day "

Each of four women in our office was delighted to receive a floral delivery at her desk this month. Each of the women (Serena, Venus, Natasha, and Vera) received flowers from her husband (Stan, Michael, Roscoe, or Roger) for a different special occasion. Each bouquet consisted of a different type of flower, and each was delivered during the first four weeks of February. From the following clues, can you match each woman with her husband and determine the date on which each woman received flowers, the occasion for the flowers, and the type of flowers in each bouquet?

 Calendar for February
Mon  Tue   Wed   Thu   Fri
-     1     2     3     4
 7    8     9    10    11
14   15    16    17    18
21   22    23    24    25

Clues:
1. No two women received flowers on the same day of the week, and no two received flowers during the same week.
2. The woman who received flowers for Valentine's Day had them delivered on either Friday the 11th or Monday the 14th.
3. Serena received flowers one day later in the week than the woman who received flowers to celebrate a promotion.
4. Natasha received flowers either the week before or the week after the woman who received irises.
5. Michael's wife received flowers on either Monday the 7th (in which case she is the one who received red roses) or on Thursday the 24th (in which case she is the woman who received flowers to celebrate her birthday).
6. Roger's wife didn't receive flowers exactly eight days before the woman who received chrysanthemums.
7. Vera's husband is either Stan or Roscoe.
8. One woman received either chrysanthemums or red roses for her wedding anniversary.
9. Venus received flowers on either Tuesday the 1st (in which case she is the one who received carnations) or Friday the 18th (in which case she received them from Stan).
10. Roscoe's wife received flowers during the second week of the month.

Determine for each woman, who is her husband, the date, the occasion, and the type of flowers

Name	Husband	Date	Flower	Occasion